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Three years of aerodynamics research has created the Bloodhound supersonic car design, unveiled recently at Farnborough: It looks just like The Blue Flame to me, which set the land speed record in 1970. The Blue Flame reached 1014.513 km/h (630.388 mph), a record that lasted 27 years. This post might reveal my lack of expertise in rocket cars, I realize, but I had hoped for a much more radical design than just a rocket with wheels. The Thrust2 and ThrustSSC broke The Blue Flame record but they also did it with new designs.